CHALLENGE Many girls are stalled between school and productive work: more than a third—34 %—of young women in developing countries are jobless—out of the labor force and not in school. Although the ge...

WASHINGTON, March 21, 2014 – The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors has approved US$60.9 million in funds from the International Development Association (IDA)* to help the Rwanda Government to ...

WASHINGTON, March 20, 2014 – The gap between the countries that perform best and worst in trade logistics is still quite large, despite a slow convergence since 2007, according to a new World Bank Gro...

WASHINGTON, March 13, 2014 – The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors has approved the third in a series of programs for Rwanda that will help accelerate the country’s impressive poverty reductio...

KIGALI, March 13, 2014 – At a high-level forum in the Rwandan capital today, H.E. President Kagame, President of Rwanda and World Bank Vice President for Africa Makhtar Diop highlighted Africa’s urgen...

KIGALI, March 12, 2014 – The World Bank and the Government of Rwanda are hosting a high-level forum on Higher Education for Science, Technology and Innovation in Kigali this week, themed “Accelerating...

KIGALI, March 12, 2014—As Sub-Saharan Africa develops rapidly, it is estimated that the continent will need millions of engineers just to reach a single Millennium Development Goal, that of access to ...

A large number of small and medium businesses in Rwanda evade or avoid taxes, according to the Rwanda Revenue Authority. Small business owners claim that it is difficult for them to declare taxes on t...

The World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) are on track to help relieve 39 countries of approximately US$114 billion in debt through two programs designed to help poor nations free up resour...